The Sun. — London, England, 1836-04-07 00:00:00

RAILROADS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. The length of the various railds aldy in con- Piati on exceeds 2,000 miles, and the q roa uantity rea of iron ne s ` cs arY for thi s completion is nearly a million of tons ! I am ~o e tv n n l le c , o f th ose who regard the spirit of enterprise which is 'h ead ' 'ling forth such mi g hty energ i es with a shake of the i f . think it, most decidedly, an omen of good ; but o,"j2n(lividuals will act rashly, their sufferings must be The t o t h eir own account. :21 h: transfer o f S crip, has undoubtedly, in many in- COe 8 , been made a matter of sheer gambling—the Chancellor r:nee' of the Exchequer has hinted at his intention of 4 , d e r i ntg this, by the imposition of a low stamp duty ; Rood ' thin this, the measure, to a certain extent, would be a 1 1 4_ 'ne• I have heard of a sadler who gives the price of elegant 7, not in the language of the shop, but in the more 1 lane of the Stock Exchange, viz., 2i credit, or Lcash! The public should be on their guard in the matter arailed inFestments, both against the projects of the bad oiled, and the reports of the weak-headed. Pro ce n :, e . f th° most curious points connected with railroad i i _ e map is the fancy which the public take in some T ondo and the neglect with which they treat others. The While n and Brighton Company's shares are selling for 201. are not yet the Bill is n o t o bt a i ne d ; t h e E astern C ount i es ' , worth 2/. ; th e li ne i s a goo d one i n a ll respects ; I,ectithe shares of the London and Greenwich (which is completed, an d w hi ch i n the words of Mr. Herepath fordi t : e greate s t monopoly " Government ever created, af -30 ye g a prospe c t, at no di stant period, of returning 4,3 or B ri s tol lr ) , are at a premium of 111. or 121. only. The then,,,and Exeter shares, which sold for 111. to 121. when f 0t4 4 ?; 1 Was first introduced, are now, that it has emerged . Lae Committee under the most propitious circum irrnes, selling for 8/. or 9/. The shares of the Grand o neowe n just projected, are at 71. premium. s e of the Bristol and Gloucester, connecting the • orth er d biel v , nn Western parts of the kingdom, may be had,. '•vel'° the deposit, for 5/ or 61. Time, I suppose, will alf. •• e these inequalities. B• ur ke once said that " ancient impossibilities arc . b . e- I tist " tnodern probabilities ;" and how curiously is this 11- li n : l ated by a comparison of ancient with modern travel 4e! What man 50 years ago, for instance, would have . the'abed it 8 possible to travel from Cornwall o l d I) ce of a single day ? Yet modern Science has not tej i Pince(' this within the range of possibility, but has 14 _ 8 .eted its performance, at no distant time, a matter, al taubit of certainty. A few years hence and a man may pro 9be abl e to cross the Tamar at day-break, get into the e: 13 .• 111-e nneli at Devonport, t rave l through Exeter to e t .°l, ther breakfa s t, an d t rave lli ng again reach Lon -1,40:4 less than five hours afterwards. Spending an ...hour t i l city c orrespon d ent, h e may t h en star t f or P or t Llac' e3ll in North Wales, and there embarking for Ire land at Dublin before midnight. ARGUS. 14SIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. I )is ARRiVALS. go Wallace, a t the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from lA, r' i 4 h.. on in North um b er l an d ; Lord Heytesbury, f rom hi s seat L 3 rd Suffield, from his seat, Gunton-park, Nor- J' Lie llt—General Sir P. Maitland, at Symmons's Hotel, boNs's-stre e t from Brighton ; P. T. Cooke, Esq., from 4 e' st er Lady ' Langham and family, at the Royal Hotel, Street,at d to t from their seat at Richmond ; Capt. Erskine, Met' fora a tour ; the Earl of Chesterfield, at New lrarn the Duke of Rutland's seat, Belvoir Castle, li ote iberbai re A ; Col. and Mrs. Davis, at the St. George's di4,'' b emarle-street, from Paris ; Dr. and MissHawtrey, ''' f r° l l . l Hastings ; Mr. and Mrs. Birch, at ditto, from lib e3' Lodge Surrey • Sir John and Lady Gerard, in Ar -44a-street:from their seat in Warwickshire ; the Rev. rorb ttr n it ,and Mrs. Gresvell, at Paine's Bath Hotel, Piccadilly, ~ tt t _liit; l 'Ld; J. Law, Esq., at ditto; Capt. Greene, R.N., 'ad'ad ; wirs. Bennet and daughters , at ditto, from France ; beth Tuften . and the' Hon.' Miss Melville, at the 11 el, Richmond Hill. b . Alb n „ : _ DEPARTURES. L'elira t ''' and Marchioness of Lansdowne, for their villa, qt? ; Countess de Salis, from Carlton-terrace, for ti ntlibh,_ — "' Southall ; G. B. Simpson, Esq., for Eton, Not-, ,te t ria, hire; Lord Morpeth, for Oxfordshire ; Colonel "rib' Worthing ; Major Deering, from the Royal Hotel, kb 4a-street, for - the Continent ; Sir J. B. Johnson, Bart., ,Nll l . - ?rd; Mr. and Mrs. Deering, from Chapel -street, ir r- square, for their seat, Ayott, St. Lawrence, Wel ilitekh—erts; G. Wilbraham, Esq., Tonbridge Wells ; .1. J. Cl4lle, Esq., M. P., for his seat, Hall, near Warring- Lttt;4o,„oashire ;Sir Robert and Lady Otway and family, from ",,otel, St. James's-street, from Brighton ; William from Lire ' ditto, for ditto; Miss Parker, from ditto, M George and Lady Elizabeth Buck, from p ie l lt - I t t T t e \ C v on n t i l . n h e a n in t ; Quin,Earl and Countess of Dunraven and from the Green Park Hotel, ~yyt l lY, for bunraven Castle, South Wales ; 'air, from ditto, for Adare Abbey, Ireland. Lord Vis- 4PORTING INTELLIGENCE. Ark: MARKET CRAVEN MEETIM G. WEDNESDAY. 14i°11 Plate of 501. ; three yrs. old, 7st ; four yrs, Sst. 71b ; Dtilt five yrs, 9st. T.Y.C. L ora ° °f Grafton's Alumnus, 3 yrs, 75t......5. Rogers 1 L r :: Exete r ' s c . b y Waverley, 3 yrs, 7st Atr' C hesterlield's - Valiant, 5 yrs, 9st 3 .11,.. ' ,Yne's Luminar 4 yrs,7lb 4 11 .4 tti ° rth's Brother to y, St. Nicholas, 3 yrs, 7st 5 b d 24,, 0 fo 4 agst Alumnus (taken), 7to 4 agst Luminary, e Col, a g s t Valiant. Won by a length. " 411 1 takes of 50 so vs. each, h. ft., for three yrs old. 0 R.M. 33 Subs. iol psbaldegon's c. by Velocipede, Bst 4 1 b...Robinson 1 44rd e el's f. Zanana, by Sultan, Bst. 41 b... ...... o „ C hesterfield's c. by Zinganee—Babel, Bst. 21b 3 t or r 1.,.%_v1ng also started, but were not placed 111,.",.!'erulam's c. by Bedlamite, out of Manille, Bst. 71b 1%. Ridsdale's b. f. by Emilius, out of Flush, B st. ]lb lllr 'tidsdale's b. f. Olinda, by the Colonel, 7st. 131 b C „„°oke's c . S a lt a t or , by Stumps, Bst. 41b tti o , (e ornhill's Ermine, by Emilius, out of Mercy, Bst. 71b Zeor -6 to 4 agst Mr. Gsbaldeston's colt (taken), 4 to 1 Pl it cr, 3to I agst abel, 10 to 1 agst Ermine, and 10 to 1 4. Won by a l ß ength. 16 to THE DERBY. 18 t o agst Lord Exeter's Muezzin, Bro. to Beiram Ah.; 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's colt. 4 tt • A cv Tuesday Night. I sto tt . 3 " - rtuke s of Portland, Grafton, and Rutland, Marquis of totoTlsod'e,,Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, Earl of Verulam, ile, C-ountess of Chesterfield, Earl and Countess of Albe lv 1 .„ (1 Viir and Countess of Wilton, Earl Jersey, Lord Berners, Sir le r% Lord G. Bentinck, Lord J. Fitzroy, Sir John Shel %l "id B • , Sir S. and Lady Graham, Sir Mark and Lady des °n ‘t , cl Gener a l an d M rs . G ro svenor, lion. G and Lady i-att Hon. G. and Mrs. A nson , Hon. S. Herbert, Colonel o l wot,heY A lice Peel, Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. er Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill, Messrs. C. Greville, Payne, I. N p V . a , ddington, Walker, Worrall, Houldsworth, ho ll‘ Z it t t r e w a ll t n Hawker, Irby, S. Stanley, Gardnor, J. IZ e by, sce. 6 . Crommelin, Roberts, Portman, Thornhill, jun., ip klditir:a to decided this afternoon do not require any particulars thlt. B ETTING ready AFTER THE RACES. 9 to t o DERBY. agst Ld Jersey's Brother to Nell Gwynne—taken 16 to agst Ai r . E . P ee l' s Th e M ummy —t a k e 10 t o 1 20 to 1 agst Sir. Ridsdale's Bamfylde—take 17 to 1 2() to I agst Mr. Th orn hill' s Alendizabal—offered 115 to agst Duke of Richmond's Sepoy—take 2i to 1 1 agst Lord E xe t er ' s M uezz i n —t a k en '2 to 1 5 to , agst M r . B atson ' s T a i s h teer —t a k en 25 to ; agst M r . All en ' s M aster o f t h e R o ll s —t a ke 30 to 1 25 to agst Mr. Tilburn's Gladiator—take 30 to 1 40 to st Mr. Ridsdale's Ne colt—take 30 to 1 I agst Mr. Osbaldeston's va c.—Peter Pindar's d.—taken OAKS. V-OAt 'amkit t h B e t t l lli a gat Emineh and Destiny—taken i oy t ess 0/ " of Rutland's dinner party this evenin John Fitz r• S. S tanley. other year h as t a k en t h e O a kl ey H oun d s . M r . P a y n e g oes /ear with the Pytehley. (le._ -PIGEON SHOOTING. i t •wt e b 6 ni PStakeS match between Mr. G room, Mr. Taylor, 'N %is yesterday at the i . ter, worth, and Mr. Vere, came o ff r,„,-,-4 closure, in the presence of a tolerable field of 1 , 11 en 0 1, Yard s ' f ..)even each was the stipulat ed .. number, twenty sityrioror I, z ill r e o ti t n tb t e he se t v r e a n p , , the charge diluted to two ounces. and in good style too ; G d ro d om „ k u i n ll u e t d . 1 7414 : I I I.; and the other Gentleman, Mr. Vere, ' ai. tti t. tl : - :,, 111 g 5- " Some shooting followed between i the latter s t :', 4 , 4' t„ ---. and Mr. Cope. They shot at thirty-th re e k tt l. itentY-one at twnty-five yards, and twelve b a . t th u i m rty . ) 8 d'itr• Cope succeeded in killing twelve out of is n 4 'qr. Vere five. TI It' tl4l,tilVetight Honourable H. Labouchere has ‘41.1 'OWII. endil'etie,llacellor of the Exchequer entertained a A parl inr, last evening , at his residence, at Dul l . V' g, s o ., l° ln 11;e°11nt Palmerston returned to town on Tuesday, -°'''itlrsthanger, Herts. His Lordship left town yesterday Beat A,,c'"er his seat, Broadlar.ds, Hants. 1 11 h ef:h nt s, Were received in town yesterday of the 24 4.. •-;arl ofi Cathcart. His Lordship was Colonel of z A , vt3atlent of Life Guards. a l ,e w i !le t 4 ti ot ,"Ys ago two unlicensed presses were seized it, °Anai ri s j.q a vvine-dealer named Anier, at No. 26, Rue 440;tekbritle, in Belleville. They hav e been used in print tl'ir h T al i songs and pamphlets against the Government. At i s b e n arrested. French Paper. 114 3 "'teded to holdwhat the Ancient Britons call i1,, 1t isteddvo , in London , k e 8 81 11 ud (8 session or congress of bards) ti e ., contillr, when prizes will be awarded for poems, essays, th 441 ni ti e • et ed vrith Welch matters, and a performance of n a -0 hi., will take place, inc luding Pennilion singing with S "'in It"e-stri n "ke th e Fed . harps, by na tives of the Principality, some i t World. bigh t ) lei "lt ltsllan improvisitori.—M 14, ab out t _IN THE LONDON DOCK.—On Tuesday throitia"Yclock, a girl of desp erate and abandoned ' 141Pirnatho B theedclll.,,ontdeurimi dock from the swivel bridge, in New Gravel-lane. It appears that she was in a state of intoxication at the time, and had been quarrelling with some of her companions. About two hours afterwards, another female, of the class called unfortunstel named Mary Ann Richards, w h o h as hlte 4 y tlilreeea a month's imprison ment, atteeTtetl. commit suicide at the same spot, but she fell into the recess in which the bridge revolves, where the water is only one foot in depth, and was got out alive. The irst thing she did on her recovery was to make a desperate attack on a young man who had saved her, and blackened his eyes. She was yesterday brought before Mr. Ballantine, who, in default of ball, committed her to prison. MOST AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH - . _ _ —On Monday evening-, the 4th, instant, about half-past nine o'clock, Mr. John Haynes, a highly respectable inhobitant of the parish of Paddington, having rettirml from fulfilling his duties at the Savings Bank to which he was attached, to his residence in the Edgeware-road, went, as was his custom, to the House of Mr. Charles Smith, the Hero of Maida Tavern, Maida-hill, where a company of gentlemen are in the nightly habit of assembling, when, no sooner had he seated himself and taken up the paper, than he fell from his chair on the floor. Medical assistance was immediately procured, and the most anxious solicitude evinced by the proprietor of the house and the gentlemen present, but all in vain, as he was found to be a lifeless corpse. MILTON AND THE EARLY ROMANCE WRITERS. —" Next," says Milton (in the Apology for his Early Life and Writings), " for hear me out now, readers, that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn can tos the deeds of Knighthood, founded by our victorious Kings, and from hence had renown all over Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every Knight that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies, by such a dear adven ture of themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it the same fault of the poet, as that which is attri buted to Homer, to have written indecent things of the Gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a Knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoul der, to stir him up, both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity. So that even these books, which to many others have been the fuel of wantonness and loose living, I cannot think how, unless by Di vine indulgence, proved to me s) many incitements, as you have heard, to the love and steadfast observation of that virtue which abhors the society of bordelloes."—Seleet Prose Works of Milton. _ No man who has lived among the peasantry of Scotland will deny the effects produced on them by their po pular songs. During the expedition to Buenos Ayres, a Highland soldier, while a prisoner in the hands of the Spa niards, having formed an attachment to a woman of the country, and charmed by the easy life which the tropical fer tility of the soil enabled the inhabitants to lead, had resolved to remain and settle in South America. When he imparted this res6lution to his comrade, the latter did not argue with him, but, leading him to his tent, he placed him by his side, and sang him " Lochaber no more." The spell was on him The tears came into his eyes, and wrapping his plaid around him, he murmured, " Lochaber nae mair ! I maun gang back ; Na !" The songs of his childhood were ringing in his ears, and he left that land of ease and plenty for the naked rocks and sterile valleys of Badenoch, where, at the close of a life of toil and hardship, he might lay his head in his mo ther's grave. —Monthly Repository. NEWS !—BAGPIPES T.—Our readers will be both grieved and surprised to learn that " in Canada, in Jamaica, in Demerara, in the Mauritius, at the Cape of Good Hope, in Newfoundland, and in New South Wales, the whole frame-work of society is in a state of lamentable disorgani zation." Thus saith the Standard of Liverpool. All the favourable accounts we have from time to time received re lative to the flourishing condition of our colonial possessions are, we suppose, official fabrications. The same Journalist who has made the wonderful discovery relative to the social disorganization of the colonists, has contrived to get a peep into Lord Glenelg's bed-room, where he found his Lordship in bed and playing the bagpipes. We give this morceau in the words of our truly extraordinary contemporary, who, it will be observed, is exceedingly wrath :—" The Noble Secretary of the Colonies (he exclaims) has been accused of indolent and drowsy habits, which have interfered with the proper discharge of his duties during a rather long and use less official life ; but if ever he was under the influence of opium or laziness, or any other incentive of sleep, it is at the present moment. Nero fiddled when Rome was burning. Lord Glenelg is playing upon his highland bagpipes, in bed, when our colonial empire is going headlong to destruction." IMPERIAL MEASURE.—AS we arc subject to a penalty of 5/. if we report any sales of wheat, barley, oats, &c., other than by the imperial measure, our correspondents are requested in future to bear this in mind; and we advise our agricultural friends to at once conform to the law, as they are also subject to a penalty of 40s. if they sell by any other mea sure than the imperial. Until they comply with the provisions of the Act we cannot report the prices of grain, &c., sold in the markets of this county. —Falmouth Packet. Another memorable Tercentenary occurs this year ; for it was in the year 1536 that the Bible was commanded to be placed, on or before the Ist of August, in the churches, for public perusal. Bishop Bonner accordingly chained six copies in the cathedral church of St. Paul for that purpose. Within almost a stone's throw of that edifice, there issued last year 653,604 copies of the Scriptures from the warehouses of the Bible Society, carrying its total issues Iryond nine mil lions of copies. It ordered in one day last year 365,000 copies ; equal to a thousand every day, Sundays included, for a whole year. Its receipts, which it was confidently predicted would soon crumble away, reached the unprecedented sum of 107,9261. Nor were other kindred institutions less successful. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, besides its other objects, issued last year no less than 173,000 copies of the Sacred Word.—From the Christian Observer. THE GOLDEN AGE OF ENGLISH POETRY. — The age of Pope Wt. 3 the golden age of poets,—but it was the pinchbeck age c' poetry. They flourished in the sunshine of public and pri - . att. patronage ; the art meantime was debased, and it continued to be so as long as Pope continued lord of the ascendant. More injury was not done to the taste of his countrymen by Marino in Italy, nor by Gongora in Spain, than by Pope in England. The mischief was effected, not by his satirical and moral pieces, for these entitle him to the highest place among poets of his class ; it was by his Homer. There have been other versions as unfaithful ; but none were ever so well executed in as bad a style ; and no other work in the language so greatly vitiated the diction of English poetry. Common readers (and the majority must always be such) will always be taken by glittering faults, as larks are caught by bits of looking-glass ; and in this meretricious translation, the pas sages that were most unlike the original, which were most un true to nature, and therefore most false in taste, were pre_ cisely those which were most applauded, and on which critic after critic dwelt with one cuckoo note of admiration. They who found nothing imitable in Dryden, could imitate this. The art of poetry, or rather the art of versification, which wa now the same thing, was made easy to the meanest capacity.'.A —Southey's _Life of Cozener. The emigration from the Clyde to America is pro ceeding very slowly this season. Scarcely any other indivi duals are venturing across the Atlantic in 4uest of fortune, or in hopes of bettering their condition, except masons and house carpenters, who are allured thither by the expectation of get ting high wages in the rebuilding of stores and houses de strayed by the late fire in New York. A JUDGMENT.—On Thursday week as Jane the wife of Henry Spooner, of Ratcliffe upon Trent, was con versing with one of her neighbours in her own house, when the neighbour told her of its being reported that she was inconti nent, she uttered various imprecations, and wished she might drop down dead if the report was correct, when awful to re late, she had scarcely spoken the words before she fell from the chair, and remained speechless until the following day. Medical aid was called in, and she is now something better, and it is thought likely to recover. —Lincoln Gazette. Sir William Ingilby arrived in Lincoln on Satur day last—be took his departure for Ripley Castle on Monday. We are happy to say the Honourable Bart. is looking well ; though at the same time we regret to announce that his amiable lady remains seriously indisposed at Frankfort, where Sir Wil liam will join her as soon as he can settle some private affairs. Sir William has addressed the electors of Lindsey. —Lincoln Gazette. —[The Address alluded to concludes thus :—" The Government, as you see, appears to be going on steadily in that great work of reform in which, through one of your mem bers, you are assisting ; and although in losing me you have lost another vote, it appears that you have not any very deter mined opposition on the part of my successor. Under these circumstances, therefore, and the painful necessity there is for my being back at Frankfort with as little delay as possible, I trust you will see that I am right in not publicly appearing throughout the Division, and it will prove to you that had it been necessary I was in the country, ready to keep my word, and once more ready to fight with you for the representation of one seat for Lindsey."] ADVICE TO LADIES.--A French poet, in the reign of Charles V., advises the ladies of that day " to walk in an orderly manner, and not to run and jump in the streets ; not to laugh in church time ; and those of them who can read, to take their books ; to be neat in their persons, and keep their nails cut ; and, when walking out, not to look in at people's win dows, and not bounce into the rooms of their friends, &c. ; and on no account to steal and tell lies." THE BLANKET TRADE.—A meeting of the blanket raisers at Earlsheaton and the neighbourhood was held at the Spangled Bull Inn, in EarlsEenton, on Wednesday, the 93d ult., to consider the propriety of making an advance in the workmen's wages. After some discussion, it was agreed that all goods should be advanced at the rate of a halfpenny per score. A meeting of the blanket manufacturers was also held yesterday week, at the house of Mr. Titus Parker, the Wel lington Tavern, Dewsbury, on the same subject. It is to be hoped that the arrangement then made will prove satisfactory to all parties.—Leeds Mercury. The King having been informed that the celebrated painter Gudin, from infirmities that deprived him of the use of his limbs, was unable to visit the exhibition at the Louvre on account of the crowd, sent to inform him that he would him self receive him in the gallery on Monday, when no one is admitted. His Majesty accord►ngly sent one of the Royal carriages, which conveyed M. Gudin from his own house to the door of the Louvre, where an arm-chair on castors was ready to receive him, in - which he was carried up-stairs. The King was ready to receive him, and the chdr was rolled to all the remarkable objects in the exhibition, his Majesty accom panying him all the while.—Galignani's Messenger. BEETROOT SUGAR. The French Mihiger of 'Arland:4, project of; Lain for subjecting the manufacture of beetroot sugar to an excise duty—read in the Chamber of Deputies on the 4th inst. COUNT D'ARGOUT'S PROJECT OF LAW RELATIVE TO BEETROOT SUGAR. Article I. From the Ist of August next the Administra tion of the Indirect Taves shall lay a tax of 15f. per hundred kiionTarilmes dn rail/ beetroot acid other sugars, besides the decime per franc to which the other indi rect taxes are subject, 2. Every person desirous or manufacturing home-made sugar shall make a declaration of the same at the office of the Administration, at the same time designating the place where his establishment is to be situated, as also the warehouses. &c., of which it is to be composed. The declaration shall be made before the Ist of July next, for such manufactories as may exist at that period, and one month before the establishment of those which may be founded at a later period. 3. The warehouses, &c., declared can have only one en trance. The manufacturers shall be bound to close or shut up every other issue, as well as all communication with neighbouring houses or properties. 4. They shall be also bound to arrange at the entrance of their establishment an office for receiving the employes enjoined to inspect it, and, moreover, to reimburse to the Administration the expenses of such surveillance, which shall be fixed at 2,000 f. per annum for manufactories whose pro duct of sugar shall not exceed 100,000 kilogrammes ; at 2,500 f. for such as produce from 100,000 to 300,000 kilo grammes ; and at 3,000 f. for those whose produce may ex ceed the last•mentioned quantity. The said indemnity, payable quarterly in advance, shall be due for the entire year. Notwithstanding the exemption from labour between one crop and another, should the produce of the year place the manufactory in a class superior to that on which the in demnity may have been regulated, the manufacturer shall be bound to pay the difference. 5. The manufacturers shall not allow the beet-root to enter their establishment till after the weight of the same shall have been inspected by the employes of the Adminis tration. They shall furnish the weights and scales, and provide the workmen necessary for such verification. The quantities of beet root,the introduction of which shall have been thus established, shall form a charge to the account of the manufacturer in the proportion of 5 kilogrammes of raw sugar (except white) for 100 kilogrammes of beet-root. 6. The manufacturers shall not send out of their esta blishments any quantity of sugar unless previously weighed in presence of the employes, and after payment of the duty at the office of the Administration. When sugars of supe riar quality are sent out, the duty on them shall be increased in the followir b , propoition :—For raw white sugar 15 per cent additional; for brown sugar, 20 per cent. additional ; for refined sugar, 25 per cent. additional. Whenever the sum to be paid by the manufacturer shall exceed 600 f., he may discharge the same in good bills at 4 months' date. 7. The manufacturers are prohibited from sending out of their establishments juices or syrups, of whatever degree of concentration, without the consent of the Administration, and in no case shall the same be sent out till after payment of the duty in proportion to the delivery which may have been agreed upon with the direction. The manufacturers are likewise prohibited from sending out molasses which may still contain sugar capable of being crystallized. For this purpose all the molasses that may be taken from the manufactories shall be inspected by the employes of the Administration. 8. In the event of contestation as to the quantity of sugar or molasses, a decision shall be made by the officers specially instituted by virtue of article 19 of the law of July 27, 1822, to pronounce on doubts and difficulties of this nature that may arise with regard to the customs. 9. Every year, before the introduction of the beetroot of the new crop, and at latest on the Ist of August, the em ployes of the Administration shall draw up in the interior of the manufactory a return of the sugars which may be declared, and presented to them by the manufacturer as the sole quantities remaining in his store, and they shall settle his account. For this purpose they shall compare the charges according to the mininzum of the delivery fixed by article 5, with the issues and the quantity of mannfactured sugar remaining. Should there be a deficit, the manufac turer shall immediately pay the duty on such quantities as he shall be unable to present. He shall also pay it on the remaining quantities, which he must send out of his manu factory unless he places them in a private store, the key of which shall be kept by the Administration, and in that case the collection of the duty shall be suspended. 10. Every quantity of undeclared sugar that may be found in the manufacturer's possession. after the drawing up of the return prescribed by the foreign articles, shall be seized by the employes of the Administration, who, for that purpose, shall be authorized to make the necessary visits and searchers in every part of the establishment. 11. Every quantity of beetroot introduced into a manu factory without a declaration shall be seized by the em ployes ; and also every quantity of sugar, juice, or syrup that may be sent out of a manufactory without payment of the duty, and every quantity of molasses that may be with drawn from the inspection of the employes. 12. Provision shall be made by regulations of public ad ministration for the dispositions necessary to insure the exe cution of the present law. 13. Every individual who, without having made the de claration prescribed by article 2, shall manufacture home made sugar, shall be liable to the penalty of the confisca tion of the beetroot, juice, syrup, sugar, and molasses that may be found in his possession, and also of the utensils serving for the manufacture, and to a fine varying from I,ooof. to 2,000 f. Any other infraction of the articles of the present law, and of the ordinances which regulate its application, shall be punished with confiscation of the objects seized, and with a fine varying from 500 f. to I,ooof. 14. The proceedings for the recovery of the duties from manufacturers of home-made sugar, and also against the fraudulent practices and infractions provided against by the present law, shall be the same as in the case of the direct taxes. The distribution of the net produce of the fines and confiscations shall take place as in the case of tobacco. DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE. (THIS DAY.) At the sitting of the Committee this morning, the question relating to the validity of the Grand Jury tax in the city of Dublin for the year 1834, which commenced on Wednesday, was resumed by Mr. WRANGIIABI, who contended that it was not competent to the sitting Member to impugn the assessment, inasmuch as no notice of such an intention was given in the list of objec tions exchanged between the parties. In the Pipe-water case they gave special notice of their intention to question its vali dity, and their not doing so in this instance was prima facie evidence that they waived it. He contended that the point not being in issue, the Commissioners in Dublin were justified in refusing to take evidence on this point, and which, had it been taken, should be placed on the rejected sheet. Mr. AUSTIN, in reply, said, in reference to the reason of the Commissioners for not receiving evidence to impeach the lega lity of the assessment, namely, that it was admitted by the sitting Members, inasmuch as they did not put the question in issue, he would observe that such could not be held good, be cause the Committee had already decided the point in the case of the Watch tax. As regarded the argument grounded upon the circumstance of notice having been given of an intention to question the Watch rate, he would say notice had been given of more than was required, and he would dispose of the third argument, founded on the 3d section of the 42d Geo. 111., relied upon by the Commissioners, inas much as Roman Catholics as well as Protestants were entitled to attend the vestries and to vote, so that they were themselves to blame if the appointment was not properly made. Now, the fact was, the Act of Parliament enabling the Roman Ca tholics to attend, did not receive the Royal Assent for nearly six months after the assessment in question was made. So much for the legal knowledge of those clever Commissioners. The agents in the lists of objected voters specify the cause of objection, but unless each party was in possession of the other's case, they could not be prepared with a counter statement to disprove the matters set forth in their opponent's statement. The Learned Counsel proceeded to argue at considerable length, after which, the Committee having deliberated for a considerable time, announced their resolution as follows : " That as no intention of impeaching the general legality of the assessment to the Grand Jury cess was contained in the statement of the sitting Members, the Committee cannot now, under the provisions of section 3, of the Act 42d George 111., chap. 106, require the Counsel for the petitioners to prove that legality ; but they will give due consideration to any facts which may be submitted to them from the evidence or docu ment to which their attention may be directed for the purpose of guiding their decision as to the validity of the charge against the vorters objected to." • After a few observations between Counsel respecting the mode of proceeding, Mr. AUSTEN proceeded to show that the assessment was de fective in some essential particulars, but The COMMITTEE decided that the cess was properly applotted. Several votes affected by this decision were struck off Mr. O'Connell's poll; and Mr. West being declared in a majority of one, the scrutiny of the petitioners voters was gone into, and two having been declared to be bad, the Counsel for the peti tioners proceeded in turn, when our Reporter left at 4 o'clock. A mcetirm of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt was held yesterday at the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Governor and the Deputy-Go vernor of the Bank of England, were present. Mr. Highali, Secretary to the Commissioners, was in attendance. POST OFFICE.—The claims of the general PS'. letter carriers t o compensat i on f or th e l o sses sustained by them in the extension of time given to the public itt the even ing for the free reception of letters at all the branchi receiving offices, by which their inadequate incomes were greatly dimi nished, have at length been recognized by the L ords of the Treasury. Compensation has, within these few Or, been given to several of those useful public servants. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. (rrom Rendont Recollections 7f the House of Lords.) I now come to speak of the iriog, dlstitigulshed man of the present day, either, in this or any other county j', 1 al lude to the Duke of Wellington. It will at once be under stood that in characterising his Grace as the most distin guished man of the present day, I speak of him in his capa city of a general, arid not in that of a statesman. In thi s latter respect, however, I am disposed to assign him a much higher rank than he is generally allowed to fill by those who entertain , political opinions opposite to his. If on some great occasions he has failed in his calculation of the probable effects of circumstances, and the probable course of events, it is not to be disputed by his most im placable foes, that be has been, in cases of unusual diffl eulty, successful in others. The mere fact of his carrying on the government of the country during the eventful pe riod which intervened between the resignation of Lord Gode rich and the dissolution of his own administration is of it selfunanswerable proof—known as it is by every one that that government was almost entirely under his own individual guidance, that his mental resources must be very far from those of a common-place character. It must not only be recollected, that the period during which his administra tion existed was one unusually critical as regarded the pos ture both of home and foreign politics ; but that he had to undertake the helm of government in the face of perhaps the strongest prejudice that ever assailed any Ministry : a prejudice caused putt; by the unpopularity of his avowed high Tory principles, and partly by his memorable declara tion, made but a short time before his accession to the premiership—that he would be mad even to dream of filling that office. And yet, not only did the Noble Duke conduct his go vernment safely through the storms and tempests of the period referred to, but at the very moment he made his ill judged declaration against all reform, it seemed to be rest ing more securely than ever. That declaration was not only the most foolish that be ever made—it was infinitely more so than his previous well known statement, that he regarded county meetings as farces—but it was decidedly the most imprudent that ever proceeded from the lips- of a Minister of the Crown. It could not fail to prove, in the then ex isting circumstances of the country, the destruction of his government. It had hardly escaped his lips, when he him self saw that such would be its inevitable consequence. But that the Duke of Wellington, notwithstanding de. fects in his character which prevented his being a States man of the first class, is more than respectable in that ca pacity, must be abundantly clear to every mind not blinded by prejudice. His conduct—first in the case of the claims of the Dissenters, and afterwards in the case of the claims of the Roman Catholics, was such as no mind but that of a Statesman, could ever have suggested. Though mista king the signs of the times, and ignorant of the state and force of public opinion in other instances, he clearly saw those signs, and correctly estimated the force of that opi nion, as regarded the Test and Corporation Acts, and the disabilities under which the Roman Catholics then la boured. I need not here remark that this conviction was not wrought on his mind by the arguments or representa tions of his colleagues in the Cabinet ; for they were, to a man, obstinately adverse to concession in either case ; it was wholly the result of his own reflections on the matter, and his clear perception of what the exigency of each individual case demanded at his hands. Nor was the fact of his determi nation to attempt the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, and to redress the grievances of the Roman Catholics, under the peculiar and difficult circumstances in which he was placed by his own previous opinions and conduct, and the existing state of sentiment on these topics among his colleagues and friends,—less a proof of his possessing some of the leading attributes of a statesman, that was the fact of his perceiv ing the then state of public opinion as to the expediency of such measures. That he succeeded in carrying them in the face of obstacles which would not only have appalled ordi• nary minds, but which seemed altogether insuperable, is a still further evidence of his possession of those attributes. There was hardly, I believe, a man in the country but him self, when he first declared his intention of bringing for ward those measures, who with the House of Lords and the prejudices of George the Fourth in his eye, ever dreamed that the Noble Duke would succeed in the objects he had in view. The Duke of Wellington has generally evinced an inti mate knowledge of the resources of his own party, and of the amount of force which would be necessary to carry their point, and defeat their opponents. Hence, as must often have been observed, he has not only on many occa sions pursued a more moderate course than those of the more bigotted and less calculating of his Tory friend, but in various cases he has refused to co-operate with them at all. In several instances this refusal to co-operate with his own party against particular measures of a liberal Govern ment, has arisen as much from a conviction of the im prudence of ,defeating Ministers—had those on his side of the House possessed the power—as from a consciousness of the futility of the attempt. In fact, his whole conduct shows that he is a man of great shrewdness and prudence. Perhaps no man of the present day possesses greater mo ral courage than the Duke of Wellington. It is that pe culiar description of moral courage, too, which teaches him to disregard alike the opinions both of friends and foes. Let him be but convinced that a certain measnre has be come indispensable to the peace or welfare of the country, and to the carrying of that measure he will lend all his energies in utter disregard alike of the frowns and smiles of others. Ido not believe that he is either to be smiled into or frowned out of a particular measure, however seductive the smile in the one c ase, or ominous the frown in the other. He appears as indiffe rent to p o p ularity as any public man I know of the present day. Indeed, treme as to degenera te into a blemish in his character. It m y impression is , tha t his moral coura g e is so ex was his utter indifference to popularity that prompted his ill-judged and, to his own Government, fatal declaration of November, 1829, against all reform. And the same dis regard of public opinion contributeq, there can be no doubt, to his resolution to centre the Government of the country in his own person during the space which intervened be tween the ejection of the Melbourne Ministry in November 1834, and the return of Sir Robert Peel from Italy. That was an experiment which no one, not even his own greatest friends, ever undertook to justify. It was an experiment, indeed, which admitted of no justification ; but was consi dered by his own party, as well as by those of opposite po litics, to be as unconstitutional as it was bold and daring. His general information is neither varied nor profound ; but he very seldom commits blunders in his . speeches. He always pays particular attention to any question of import ance before the House, before he ventures to open his mouth on it. And there are few men who can so speedily master the leading details of any question. His mind is acute, and his understanding vigorous, so that, in as far as the mere matter of his speeches is concerned, he generally appears to some advantage. He often strikes out new courses of thought, but seldom pursues them far. It is nothing uncommon to hear him urge a series of ingenious arguments in favour of his view of the subject, without what is called dwelling on them. He is always clear : you can never mistake the position he labours to establish, nor can you ever fail to perceive the immediate bearing of his observations on that position. Were his diction and manner good, the noble Duke would rank high as a speaker, but both are bad. His style is rough and disjointed—sometimes positively incorrect ; it is always, however, nervous and expressive. His manner of speaking is much worse than his diction. He has a bad screeching sort of voice, aggravated by an awkward mode of mouthing the words. His enunciation is so bad, owing in some measure to the loss of several of his teeth, that often, when at the full stretch of his voice, you do not know what particular words he is using. At other times, and this too while his gesture is vehement, he speaks in so low and peculiar a sort of tone, that you lose, perhaps, whole sentences together. The Duke feels strongly on political questions, and there is always great energy in his manner when expressing his sentiments. He generally makes a liberal use of his arms, especially his right one, when on his legs, and moves his body about for the purpose of enabling him to look his own friends, in different parts of the House, in the face. In his amentary more vehement moo d s , he frequently falls into what, in par language, is called the habit of expectoration. - Es whole soul is thrown into his subject. You see at once that he has no ambition to play the orator. He never uses a word more than is necessary, nor does be attempt rheto rical flourishes. His speeches are full of feeling and senti ment. You are only surprised when you see the intensity of the former, if in opposition to any measure before their Lordships,—that he does not divide the House on the subject. SINGULAR CASE OF RESEMBLANCE. —A young woman was recently charged before the Brussels Correctional Police with stealing wood. The pilsoner denied the charge, and said it must have been her sister. Her sister was brought into Court, and the resemblance between them was so striking, that the Tribunal, fearful of condemning the innocent, ac quitted both. DOVER, APRIL 2.—This morning, at eight o'clock, a y tlernan, drov e up to t h e L on d o n Inn in this town in a postchaise man, having something of the app earance of a gen . accompanied by a young wom an apparently very n confinement. He would no t cross the water to acneada o l ra u n sio gue in r r either of the steam-boats, but hired an open boat— , that of the well-known Jump'er, who crosses with the mail when the weather is too rough for the steamers—for which he agreed to pay the sum of 10/. But the singularity of his con duct did not end here. After displaying a bundle of bank notes in the coffee-room, supposed to c ontain 1,0001., he en gaged a medical man, assistant to Mr. Coleman, of Dover, to whom he gave 9 0/., to accompany himself and his lady, in c ase the latte r s h ou ld b e ta k en in labour on the passage. Paris was the object in view, where, no doubt, the 1,000/. will be well received ; and in all probability the gentleman will be safely delivered of his burden, whatever may be the fate of his ecmpanion, THE INQUISITION. The following document is a pretty good specimen of what the Spanish Inquisition was, and would be again, if Don Carlos were restored: — We / the undersigned Inquisitors-General against here tical depravity and apostacy, to all our dependants, familiars, and dfieiolvados, make known for tlseir satis- faction : That, occupying ourselves incessantly to check the evils which the accursed spirit of the age is introclu'cil)g into do cile Spain against the necessary privileges of our Holy Tri bunal, we have at last discovered that a foreign commodity, Felled knowledge (illustration), is the cause of all this in jury and scandal. It consists in a diabolical beverage, which upsets received ideas, and causes those who unfor tunately happen to taste it, to deem themselves rational, and consider us (oh, barbarism !) less wise and prudent than we were formerly thought to be. Were this prejudi cial madness to spread, it might succed in destroying the pious institution of the Holy Office ; unless we root out such bad seeds by the sweet and efficacious remedy of per suasion, which the most sapient antiquity deposited in our most pure and soft bands. Wishing therefore to revive the happy times, when the sovereigns of the earth carried on their royal shoulders the blessed wood that was to burn those whom we declared heretics, and deserving of the fire and flames in this and the other world, we deign, by these present writings, to make wretched mortals hear our voices, whilst the torture, the rack, and other bland instru ments are preparing, wherewithal we are accustomed to divert the visitors of joyous and much frequented house. Using, therefore, so holy and justly exercised power, we ordain and command : 1. That the herb, called knowledge, be declared poison ous, indigestible (for Eo we hear our physicians say), and illicit in traffic, and that its introduction and sale be prohi bited, under pain of the infractors being roasted two hours, twenty minutes, and sixteen seconds in our blast furnace. 2. It is declared that all the progress foreigners are said to have made by virtue of this poison, are solemn lies, deserv ing of vituperation ; for what is called the good administra tion of a state, the happiness of the people, and other trifles of this kind, are witchcraft and snares of the Devil : so let this be a guide to the good and well-disposed, and a terror to the wicked. 3. To counteract the propagation of the use of the afore said poisonous knowledge, all books, of any kind or descrip tion, are in future prohibited, as involving the said herb. There are excepted only the savoury and most discreet History of Bertosir, and the most exemplary book of Rarc Cases of Vices and Virtues, the diverting and most enter taininm work of the Cries from Hell, which are to serve as text-books in the schools, that children, Ivhoi learning to read, may become astute and wise, and be instructed in the salutary fear which our parental authority ought to Inspire in the faithful. _ _ _ _ 4. It is declared as a general point, and as laid down by authority and settled, that notwithstanding anything said by four clowns and ignoramuses, that there have been, there are, and ever will he, wizzards, witches, and enchanters, in proof of which, though our word ought to be sufficient, we ourselves have often discovered infinite charms and en chantments in the eyes and other parts of a pretty girl. Nothing more need be said, for let every one lay his hands on his own breast. 5. It is declared moreover, against the same slovenly bachellors, that there exist whole armies of cats, who are following the modest style of the preceding article, as we shall prove by citing the Pepas, Manuelas, and Antonias, whom more than four of the faithful of either sex have had occasion to know, and who, by virtue of the aid of the Devil, or aiding him themselves, have done things that would appear impossible, had they not been seen and felt. , 6. Females to be amenable to the Holy Tribunal for any extravagance in their dress ; infractions of this article to be punishable at the discretion of the Inquisitors, cor porally or otherwise. 7. Males, ditto. 8. Dancing prohibited. 9. We also forbid masquerades, for ever ; because, not withstanding our delicate tact, we ourselves might mistake a cat for a hare on such occasions, and be deceived, which is contrary to good manners, and productive of bad conse quences. If there should be, nevertheless, people so im pious as to countenance these prohibitions of the Holy Tribunal, they shall, for the diversion of all the world, have the penalty later scntentice ipso facto incurred or inflicted, besides receiving our secret curses and chastisements.— Amen. Amen. 10. As it appears to us that for the purpose of spread ing the poison called knowledge, certain persons styling themselves modern philosophers, have formed a society, known under the name of Propaganda, we declare as a general point, in order to cheek so great an evil, we our selves shall propagate every thing we think worth propa gating ; and using our ultimate authority, we declare our selves the only and sole Propagandists, and are determined to cut off from all others the means of further propagation. Given in our Inquisitorial Hall, &c. (Signed) DON SIGNUDIO PALLAZZA, DON ROQUE APRETON. By their command. CARIUS TOLLENDUS, Secretary of the Holy Office. This pleasant quizzing of the Holy Inquisition is highly amusing now ; but there Was a time when the mandates of the Holy Office filled the whole Peninsula with terror, and that time would.be sure to return should the Pretender get the upper handin Spain, he having promised to restore the Inquisition, and to carry on his own royal shoulders the faggots upon which the Liberals of the Chamber of Peers and Procuradores arc to be burnt, who voted his exclusion from the throne and from Spain, in the Cortes ; blaming his brother Ferdinand for not having revived it before, as even some of the members of the Cadiz Cortes proposed. The fear of its revival still predominates in most minds, and will continue to haunt them till the Pretender shall be put down for ever. Many citizens recollect that their wives and daughters—even after the auto de le had ceased —were snatched from their arms, and thrown into the prisons of the Holy Office upon pretence of heresy, where their bodies were polluted by the Inquisitors, without any chance of redress—the parties theimelves not daring to di vulge their own disgrace. These arc sad and revolting realities. Though the Inquisition, and now even monkery itself is abolished, the correspondent of a London Tory Morning Paper (the Post), travelling the other day only from Lis bon to Madrid, fancied himself to have been put into the Inquisition at Truxillo, where monks with lighted tapers walked round him, bowed, and made faces at his heretic person, of which he gave a dismal and incredible account here. Having been suffered to proceed on his journey, though not without being kept, as he imagined, under the serveillance of the police, taking the passengers, who happened to be his travelling companions in tie diligence, for police °facers, and these perceiving his weakness, humoured the joke. On his arrival at Madrid, Le made a sad and doleful complaint of his sufferings, but Mr. Villiers soon saw how he had been imposed upon, and comforted the poor gentleman as well as he could. RAILROADS IN AUsTRIA.—The iron railroad to Galicia is to be commenced in April. It is hoped that it will be completed as as far as Brunn in 18 months. The journey from Vienna to Brunn, with post horses, now takes 15 hours ;. then it will take only four hours. The dearness of provisions, which has for some time past Leen much felt at Vienna, will be remedied in proportion as the railroad is laid down, because the supplies from Galicia will come more rapidly, and at less expense, than they now do. It is true that it will be full five years before the road can be finished. When we reflect that potatoes cost in Galicia only one-third of what they do at Vienna, and that all the productions of the sort are in the same proportion, we can infer what advantage the capital will derive from the railroad.—Alivemeine Zeitang, April 1. Yesterday mornine . , between nine and ten o'clock, Mr. Webster, a gentleman residing in Charlotte-street, Port land-place, who had been for some days previous in a nervous state of excitement, cut his threat in bed, and almost imme diately expired. Mrs. Webster, who had not left the room many minutes, on returning with the breakfast she had pre , pared for Mr. Webster, discovered him weltering in his blood. He had procured a razor during her temporary ab sence, though he was apparently asleep when she left the room. • THE Housu FLY.—At the Entomological Society, on Monday, a paper was read by the Secretary on excluding the house fly. The mode adopted was a 'ie.:made of different coloured meshes of about three-quarters of an inch square, and which, when placed against a window, was found quite effectual in excluding the visits of these troublesome insects from the outside of the room. The same experiment was tried with meshes made of the finest black thread, one inch and a quarter square, which proved to be equally effectual. The approach of wasps was also prevented by the above mode, very few finding their way within the boundary. This was accounted for by an optical illusion in the eyes of the insect, of the highly magnifying power of vision, and the small focal length. On the 27th ult. a windmill at Pillorge, in the de partment of the Deux Sevres, was struck by lightning. The electric fluid smote the arm to the East, broke it, and black ened it ; entered the mill, going through it in every three tion ; and then fell to the ground, where an explosion took place that broke and destroyed the mill from top to bottom. The door was thrown more than thirty paces against the wind, and one of the sails, by the force of the wind and the electric matter together, was thrown 200 paces from the ruins.—French Paper. bISCIPLINE OF TIIE FRENCH ARMY.—The Courrier Francais says, that General Lallemand, in some o bservations which he made upon a proposition relative to mili tary punishments, in the Chamber of Peers, has indirectly an swered the imputations of the Duke of Wellington against the French army, and has shown that, so far from being badly dis ciplined, the greater number of the French soldiers return home after their service without having received the slightest reprimand. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.. The late Tory Magistrates of Bristol may claim the merit of having done all that they possibly could to de stroy the commerce of that city. With unrivalled fa cilities for the establishment of manufactures—with coal, water, iron, and copper, with extensive means of internal and coastwise communication—with the po pulation and markets of the whole of the west of land, South Wales, and Ireland at its command—with an easy access to the sea, and unrivalled facilities for intercourse with foreign ports, Bristol seems destined by nature to be what it long was, second only to Lon don as a great commercial emporium. By gross ft, is management the late authorities threw away all their advantages, and not only suffered Liverpool to rise far above it, (the duties collected in that town being nearly four times the amount collected in Bristol,) but actually, by their exec sive taxation, raised up in Gloucester and Newport powerful rivals at its door. The tonnage of Hull engaged in foreign trade now exceeds that of Bristol by nearly 260 per cent., and in 1835 the number of vessels clearing out of Newport, exclusive of those sailing to ports in the Severn, was 8,000, while the total number cleared out the same year at Bristol was 4,246. The cause of the dcdine of Bristol is involved in no mystery. From a able including the principal articles of import, it ap pears tha: where London paid in local taxation 10s. 4d. Liverpool 5d., Hull 7s. 3d., Gloucester 6s. 2d., Bristol would hue to pay 11., or, before a late redgc tion, 11. ss. sd. On some articles the difference be tween London - and 13rist6. 1 was as 421. to 6141. In 1823 the Chamber of Corn:nerce memorialized the Common Council for a ieduction the town-dues and other municipal imposts, to which they chiefly as cribed the depression of the port, but the Corporation turned a deaf ear to their application. And when, some years afterwards, a reduction did take place, it; failed to effect the object for which it was intended, be cause Bristol still paid far higher dues than any rival ports. The trade declined, the population did not in crease in proportion to the rest of England ; but the poor-rates in the city parishes in a few years in creased about 50 per cent. beyond the average in crease of England. So much for the doings of the late Tory authorities of Bristol. But amidst all this decay, the Corporation gave immense salaries to the mayor and sheriffs, that they might be enabled to give sumptuous dinners to aldermen and common councilmen. The disgraceful conduct of the magistrates during the riots, proved that, however pre-eminent in feasting , they were destiilite of the qualities which fitted them for a due discharge pf the duties of their situation. Toryism at3d mismanagemeni, and decay of trade as its consequences, being thus associated with the recent history of Bristol, one should have thought that, after the late Municipal Reform Act, the Tories would hardly have dared to face the community they had so deeply injured. Dur ing their ascendancy they rigorously excluded all Re formers from the magistracy. Every alderman was a Tory. When vacancies in the Corporation arose, they were uniformly filled up by Tories. They went every where for new members but to the respectable Refor mers of Bristol. At a dinner given to Lord Edward Somerset, in January 1833, Alderman Daniel ob served, that " there were a few vacancies in the Corporation, and he should be exceedingly grati fied if they were filled up by volunteers from the present company, because he was persuaded that their objects were to support the King and Constitution," and in due time Alderman Daniel read the names of the Marquis of Worcester, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Redesdale, Colonel Grxme, R. H. B. Hall, and Jos. Neeld, Esq., M.P. The Corporation candidates for the representation were always flaming Tories. In short, abuse- of power was never' carried so far as by the Tory Corporation of Bristol. But with proofs of their mismanagement and inefficiency everywhere staring them in the face, they are not ashamed to claim a right to impose whom they please on his Majesty's Minis ters for Magistrates. Because Lord John Russell did not, on their recommendation, name Alderman Daniel to the Magistracy, Sir Richard Vyvyan ap plied language to his Lordship so inappropriate, that even the Tory Members in the House were ashamed of him ; and by universal confession of his own party, the Cornish Baronet made himself supremely ridi culous. So apparently thought the Times, which was prudently silent for some days with regard to Sir Richard's achievement ; but at length, inordei not to be outdone by its Tory allies, it now begins also to trumpet forth the praises of the Honourable Ba ronet. What effrontery in the Tories, who di rectly or indirectly excluded all who were not of their party from the magistracy, to complain because Lord John Russell does not choose as a matter of cours, to appoint every one to the magistracy whom they commend ! At a meeting of Bristol Tories on the 2d instant, an address was voted to Alderman Daniel, in which they declare that " when, by a most arbitrary and wanton act of Ministerial power, the city finds itself deprived of the services of the oldest, the moi experienced, and the most respectable of its magistrates, we, your brother citizens, indignant at the affront which has been offered to you and to our city in your person, are led by a strong feeling of what is clue to long proved worth and excellence, to mark, by some public expression, our sense of the enormity of' this proceed ing," &c. This is strange language applied to the act; of a responsible Minister of the Crown ! Lord John Russell consulted the town-councils, but he was not more bound to attend to their suggestions than to sug gestions from any other quarter whatever. It was ne cessary that he himself should be satisfied with the fitness of the appointment, because he was responsible for it. It is a new reading of the Constitution, that men should consider themselves affronted because the Minister of the Crown, in his appointments, does not blindly resign his judgment to them, and become their tool. Lord John Russell naturally thought that Alderman Daniel, having declined to fill the office of Mayor on account of his age and infirmi ties, was not a proper person to be made a Magistrate ; but if Alderman Daniel had been in the full vigour of age, there is no reason why his Lordship should be obliged to take him against his own judgment. Alder man Daniel might have great merits in the eyes of the Tories, and vet not be a person whom a Reform Mini ster would choose to make a Magistrate. Upon the same principle the Times, echoing the Bristol Tories, exclaims, " the imputation of physical imbecility thus ofFensively cast upon a [rentlaman whom age would never have rendered unfit for the bench, if independence had not made him unpopular in Downinp,--strect, is indignantly rebutted by the affectionate addiess of his fellow-eitizsns." Independence ! What sort of inde pendence ? Opposition to Reform principles? Did the Tories select for office men who showed their indepen dence by opposing them? 'What would have been said if, under a Tory Ministry, the Reformers had com plained that their recommendations to the Magistracy were neglected on account of their independence ? It is the first time we ever heard of a Ministry being bound to confide authority in men to whom they are politically opposed. The great fault of the Reform Ministry is, not that they have refused to adopt every Tory recommendation, but that they have suffered so many Tories to hold the Lieutenancies, and to fill the maaisterialbenches. In fact, theirgreat fault is (and this they have been again and again told by the Times) that they have not done justice to the cause of Reform in suffering the powers of the Crown to be wielded by Tories. We know of no men who arc less entitled to the countenance of a Reform Ministry than the Bristol Tories. That so many of them have found their way into the council of the town they have done so much to ruin, is to be attributed to the influence they still possess from the numerous charities they administer. Lord J. Russell, had he followed Tory precedents, would have ex cluded all of them from the Magistracy. His wish to conciliate them has only provoked an impertinent assumption of a right to dictate to the Crown. Sir Richard Vyvyan is enraged st d f because he feels th at, on a 'future el ec ti on , h e rn him ques tioning b y has no chance o f bein g returned ; and he h ad not the (rood sense to thecfaolultTovuslya ba example set St Sir Robert o b t e rig r Pe h e t h of the Crown to n ame to t h e maei stracy according to its discretion, and merely suggested that Lord John Russell had departad from the prin ciple by which he declared he would be guided in his appointments. The vulgar abuse of the Bristol Tories, and their or T' gaa the tines, are like Sir R THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, iB)6,